In Japan, human feces are reconstituted and reprocessed and sold in markets to use as an alternate source of nourishment. It is flavored and colored to simulate real meat.

In the Phillippines garbage is picked up by restaurants and again reprocessed to appear likewise as bona fide food. and all classes knowingly consume it, sometimes preferring it to the real thing. Purely synthetic food , however is still in the works, I believe.

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Can you talk about that bias? I mean how much synthetic food have you had to have arrived at that preference? And why wouldn't it be "real".

It would be real food, in the sense it fulfills your nutritional requirements, and if it tasted good and was pleasing to the palette, what the heck? I don't think food requires that it was once living. So far that has sort of been all that was available.

With the current options that are out there, I think food that was once alive is just better overall. Maybe some innovations occur to change my mind, but even then I'm pretty sure there's a lot of living things that I would still want to eat.

You see...a pimp's love is very different from that of a square.Dating a stripper is like eating a noisy bag of chips in church. Everyone looks at you in disgust, but deep down they want some too.

Just go to the what's for dinner thread for some examples. Most all the pics that I posted are of real food. Maybe all of them unless I somehow ate synthetic food and just didn't realize it. There was this one weird pastry that I bought from a self righteous hipster coffeeshop place where it was literally free of everything. No gluten, vegan, and like a half dozen other adjectives. It wasn't really great but I would eat another one if you had one.

You see...a pimp's love is very different from that of a square.Dating a stripper is like eating a noisy bag of chips in church. Everyone looks at you in disgust, but deep down they want some too.

Maybe. But I don't think I could give up food that was once alive. Man, there's a place near me where these guys are doing all kinds of crazy stuff. Rare venison just lightly seared and drizzled in some crazy sauce, duck confit, lamb shanks, stuffed rabbit, stuffed quail, I mean...I can't just give that kind of stuff up.

You see...a pimp's love is very different from that of a square.Dating a stripper is like eating a noisy bag of chips in church. Everyone looks at you in disgust, but deep down they want some too.

I don't see life as trivial. I just don't think it's wrong to eat meat. Most of these animals are bred for consumption. If it weren't for people planning on eating them then they'd have no life at all. In a sense, the bit of life that they do get to experience is a result of that consumption.

You see...a pimp's love is very different from that of a square.Dating a stripper is like eating a noisy bag of chips in church. Everyone looks at you in disgust, but deep down they want some too.

Synthetic food as an alternative was presented and the only difference was it didn't involve killing anything to eat. It could be fashioned into any flavor or texture that was appealing to the palette, the only difference was it never lived.

Kill them both I'll eat both.

How do you walk like a duck and act like a duck and not expect me to believe you aren't talking like a duck too.

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Sorry, If that were the only difference and you could throw what ever financial resources in that direction that you could. I can't speak for any other living form but thanks. Being eaten is not high on my to do list.

What if you could never have any life at all...OR...you could have a few good years of relaxing and grazing in a nice field where someone made sure you were healthy and fat but then you had to be eaten? Which would you choose?

You see...a pimp's love is very different from that of a square.Dating a stripper is like eating a noisy bag of chips in church. Everyone looks at you in disgust, but deep down they want some too.

I don't like it here one bit. I had no voice in being here. when the reaper comes it doesn't hear no. And I'm not having much fun. Maybe some small amount of fun and I likely totally underestimate it's fun as significant. I've got an ego that can match all others. No, I haven't yet figured out that life is fun paradox.

If reincarnation were real I'm stuck in a 37,000 year loop.

I'm looking for teachers. Out of clues.

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